How long SHOULD it take to learn English? | 3 months of FREE daily English lessons #Spon

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First of January onwards for the first three months of 2018
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language lessons every single day with real native qualified teachers
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For free if you complete this the only thing you end up paying is a card fee. Which is 50 cents
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This annoying you because it's annoying
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Hello, everyone and welcome back to english with lucy. I have got a chatty video for you today
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It is going to give you some really good
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English learning tips and it's also going to be great for your listening practice as well
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So if you're struggling to hear me make sure you turn on the subtitles which I've lovingly created for you
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So you can represent your language and help those who?
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Struggle to understand this level of English by clicking on the link that I pinned to the top of the comment section
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So I've been on YouTube now for almost two years. I cannot believe it
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I started on the 6th of January
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2016 that's when I uploaded my first ever video
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Make or do which I'm sure you can find somewhere
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But throughout those years there has been one question that has been constantly constantly coming up
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And it's a question
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I've never felt comfortable to answer before and that is how long?
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Does it take to learn English or broader than that how long does it take to learn a language and to speak it fluently?
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it has been a
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Very interesting year a lot has happened a lot of good things a lot of negative things and but I'm really looking forward to
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2018 one of the reasons I'm looking forward to it so much is because I am participating in a marathon
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I've signed up to run the London Marathon
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and
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I'm so so excited
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But it's not my first marathon
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It might be my first marathon running
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but I really feel like I've participated in a marathon before because I have
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a language to fluency I
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Consider myself to be fluent in Spanish if you want to test that then you can check me out - speaking Spanish in this video
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Here, but I consider learning a language to be a marathon you can't sprint it
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You can't do it in a day you have to do a little bit ideally every single day
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But if not on a very very regular basis I get students coming to me all the time saying Oh
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Last year my English level was so good
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I lived in Dublin and then I moved back to my home country
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And I've lost everything if I stopped training now for this marathon
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I would lose all of the work that I had put in so when I get these questions from students like Lucy
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Realistically how long does it take to become fluent in the language?
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Or Lucy. I'm at a b1 level right now. Can I get the c1 within two years?
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I don't know how to answer for every individual
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But I do know how to answer for my students as a whole have you ever heard of the fable with the proverb?
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slow and steady wins the race you know when there was that hare with the tortoise and
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The hare sprinted it and had a nap didn't win the race, but the tortoise
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Did little by little slowly steadily and won the race
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Well, I don't believe in that either. I think instead of slow and steady wins the race
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I think we need to say constant and consistent
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wins the race one hour
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every day for two weeks is
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So much better than one day into it you cram 14 hours
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Okay, you might wake up the very next day knowing a lot of English and may be able to pass your English test
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But two weeks on will you still have all of that information and knowledge retained in your brain?
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I don't think so. I think the way we have to look at it is
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setting goals
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Realistic goals, but the right kind of goals and goals that you have control over
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Rather than goals you don't have control over now that might seem really really obvious
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But actually it's somebody very very intelligent told me about this the other day, and it made me think oh
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My god, what a revelation my students need to be reminded of this
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I'm sure some of you are already completely conscious of this, but for those who aren't or maybe were and have forgotten
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Let me relay this to you the two types of goals. I want you to focus on are goals that you
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Don't have control over and goals that you do have control over
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So for example I would never do this
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But imagine if I set myself the goal of hitting 1 million subscribers by the end of 2018
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That's not a goal that I have control over its new people subscribing
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It's my current subscribers staying subscribed. It's the algorithm. It's
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YouTube continuing to be a very successful platform
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I'm only a very small part of achieving that goal. However if I were to set myself a goal like
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Next year I want to upload a video that I'm really proud of
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Every single week, that's a goal that I have control over
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It's a goal that I think is much more likely to bring me success and satisfaction
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It's in my hands. I want to do it. I've set it for myself
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So what I've shared with you today. I would share with you guys
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Regardless of sponsorship, but actually one of my long-term sponsors in fact they were my first ever sponsor
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And they've showed incredible
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Support throughout such a long time and sort of my entire career
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They've come up with a really cool campaign, and I'm really genuinely excited to bring it to you because it ties in perfectly
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With what I wanted to say to you guys today. It's like it's too perfect
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it's the language marathon and
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The company is then goda if you are one of my subscribers
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Then you will you will know about the lungo de they sponsor my videos they make these lessons happen
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They've set up a campaign which is too perfect it ties in so perfectly with what I wanted to say today
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They have started a language marathon
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and I'm so excited to bring it to you because I have the chance it's amazing because they've given me the chance to offer my
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Subscribers, and it's not a competition. It is for all of you
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The chance to to get from the first of January onwards for the first three months of 2018
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language lessons every single day with real native qualified teachers
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For free if you complete this the only thing you end up paying is a card fee. Which is 50 cents
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The language marathon ties in perfectly with the message that I want to give to you guys the fact that constantly and steadily and consistently
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Studying English will bring you to your goal
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Firstly, what is lingo de if you don't already know. I'm sure you do know if you don't already know. Let me quickly
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It's an online Language Academy they teach English French Spanish and German
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They have real native qualified teachers that deliver group and private video chat lessons
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So you are always in contact with a real native teacher
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So you can go up one entire language level by taking one?
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one-hour class every single day for the first three months of
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2018 that is the lingo de language marathon now this offer is only for people who are completely committed
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Because you pay for the full course, but if you complete every single day
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You can go to or a fund it all back to you
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This is why it's so important to be committed, but for those who need this and want this it's such an incredible opportunity
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the price you pay is
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189 euros a month and that is actually an incredible rate for language lessons I
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Can tell you when I was working in classrooms?
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I was charging way more than that if you don't think that you can commit to those three months every single day
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Then you can do the half marathon as well you pay 99 euros per month
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And you will get a 50% refund at the end of it if you complete it
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It's very obvious you have to be completely completely committed to participate in this
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There are very limited spaces as well
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I think French and German are now almost completely full and the English spaces are really filling up, too
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If you complete the full marathon you will save
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587 euros can you imagine?
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587 euros worth of language lessons for free
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It's it's crazy
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I love the idea
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and I just love the way it's giving an opportunity for almost everyone to get involved and to
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Experience something like this now
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I know it sounds quite nerve-wracking. What happens if something comes up, and you can't complete one day
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this was the first thing that I asked lingotto when they told me about this offer and
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And they said that they are allowing
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one day of
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extra give if you're ill if you have a family event or something you can catch up with them that extra day, so
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Theoretically you could take two lessons on a Monday not on a Tuesday - on a Wednesday
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Another thing to say is that it's completely customized to your schedule
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So you can pick any hour of the day any day of the week?
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They will completely customize to your schedule lingo to have very kindly taken away
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The sign-up fee for my students the entry fee was 5 euros
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But you guys don't have to pay that if you use my code marathan 3
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They will only charge a $0.50 signup fee when you sign up using the link below
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You will not be charged until the 30th of December and before that date
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You can cancel your participation if something comes up after then
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You will have committed to making those 3 payments
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And then if you complete the marathon that will be refunded to you so to those who are interested
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committed and dedicated
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This is an awesome offer if you participate correctly and as intended you will get your money back
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I think it's such a generous offer to those who are getting involved keep me updated on how it's going
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I think it's an incredible thing that you're doing
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It's no mean feat and no mean feat means. It's not something easy to achieve
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It's gonna be challenging
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But it's gonna be so rewarding. I mean the biggest reward of all will be improving a whole language level
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But it's also pretty nice to have that free and get that big lump sum back at the end
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So if you're interested click on the link in the description box use the code
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Marathon 3 get that signup discount and get started have a wonderful day

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